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  1. PaulRobinson · · focus · HN ↗
    Local LLMs are the future, and one of the reasons I think the data centre furore is just going to end in a market crash.

    LLMs that can reliably be used for control problems are the future, and I think classic/deep RL has generally been overlooked for years for a whole host of problems by wider industry because it felt inaccessible. The first thing I thought of when I saw Jev (and then Laya), was "this might move the needle in a really, really interesting way".

    Local LLMs that can reliably be used for control problems smash through a lot of barriers I'm interested in, and this intrigues me a lot. Guess I'm about to become a big Laya fan if it can run on this kind of hardware to this performance.

    1. bigyabai · · focus · HN ↗
      It won't. Laya is a finetuned version of Google's BeRT model, which is almost 10 years old right now.

      If BeRT had any potential to disrupt the datacenter buildout, it already would have.

      1. viraptor · · focus · HN ↗
        Modernbert is from 2024. It's also trained from scratch, not a fine tune.
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